Detroit Hot 107.5’s Bijou Star caught up with Iggy’s mentor to set the ghostwriting rumors straight. T.I. says the “Fancy” rapper’s words and thoughts are all her own, but everybody in the studio helps.

“I mean, I ain’t no ghostwriter. Iggy got her own ideas and thoughts that she presents to the world her own way, man. I couldn’t write a lot of the shit she say. I couldn’t put her thoughts into words as articulate as she does. She just has a different way of presenting herself and her art. Now, don’t get me wrong… everybody in the studio helps with hooks and certain things like that. That goes for me and any of the other top five rappers. Everybody. It could be a producer, a homebody…you want the best ideas. If Iggy can have a mentor than I guess I’m the closest thing to it.”

really? I’ll have to do alittle more research on her then. From the interviews and background info I’ve seen, she just strikes me as a straight up industry made chick. I mean, that down south accent isn’t even authentic

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She’s been doing the southern accent, desert trap rapper thing since late 2010 which is the furthest i’ve been able to delve back into her music. Also, she was doing low budget videos for a while so I highly doubt she’s a record label lab project.

My beef isn’t that she may/may not use a ghostwriter. Why does she believe she has to use a fake accent to sell records? It seems she is playing a role? She’s not from Cali, why is she perpetuating a fake idea she is? To me the woman is just inauthentic.

She’s obsessed with Pac. Heard her say this a number of times in her earlier interviews before she really started to get shine. The rap accent comes from the fact that the first placed she moved to in America was ATL of all places.

Doesn’t matter to me who writes her raps- Dre hasn’t written a bar of his own ever. Doesn’t make either of the Chronics any less great. And if Iggy’s bars are all hers- albeit even “with help” (Nicki even admitted that Jay and ‘Ye both fed her some lines for that “Monster” verse)- doesn’t change the fact that her music’s still trash.

Really hope that in two years or so she’s in the same dusty footnote file as Krayshawn, V-Nasty, and Kid Sister. Although she hasn’t dropped anything as bad as that Kray/Cudi record, and she hasn’t taken an L on the level of everything V-Nasty ever did, Iggy also hasn’t made a song half as good as “Gucci Gucci” either.

Remember Snoop talking about how everybody wrote for each other’s projects on Death Row? Even the immortal Jigga Man has had a joint or two slid his way. And so has Nas. Kane wrote for a gang of people… Freddie Foxx wrote on Salt n Pepa’s biggest album. Run-DMC wrotes bunches of Licensed To Ill…

Like I said before, the issue with Iggy isn’t ghostwriting, but that it’s just another reminder of how manufactured she is. But these days, who isn’t a gimmick?

Don’t all major artist have a gimmick? The good artist are the ones who have genuine talent (as judged subjectively by a person) to back it up right? But a gimmick or selling point is inherent in something that you call a business, right? Or are we using different definitions of gimmick. I know mine doesn’t fit the “kids these days suck” trope, so I can bow out…

I mean, Ye practically wrote all of lucifer for Jay. Anyone watch those “making of the black album” videos, you see Ye spitting the entire first verse and hook to the song as Jay sits in a corner absorbing it.